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Author:
Hollander, Philip author.
Title:
From schlemiel to sabra : Zionist masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew literature / Philip Hollander.
Publisher:
Indiana University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef,--1887-1970--Criticism and interpretation.
Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim,--1881-1921--Criticism and interpretation.
Arieli, L. A.,--1886-1943--Criticism and interpretation.
Reuveni, A.,--1886-1971--Criticism and interpretation.
Israeli literature--History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Schlemiels in literature.
Sabras.
Zionism in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: A rhetoric of empowerment -- Of their time and their places: a biographical introduction to the self-evaluative writers -- Chapter 1. Holding out for a hero: crisis and the new Hebrew man -- Chapter 2. He needs a stage? : masculinity, homosociality, and the public sphere -- Chapter 3. Contested masculinity and the redemption of the Schlemiel -- Chapter 4. Homosexual panic and masculinity's advancement -- Chapter 5. Self-evaluative masculinity's interwar apex and eclipse -- Afterword: The lesson, legacy, and implications of self-evaluative masculinity.
Summary:
"In From Schlemiel to Sabra Philip Hollander examines how masculine ideals and images of the new Hebrew man shaped the Israeli state. In this innovative book, Hollander uncovers the complex relationship that Jews had with masculinity, interrogating narratives depicting masculinity in the new state as a transition from weak, feminized schlemiels to robust, muscular, and rugged Israelis. Turning to key literary texts by S. Y. Agnon, Y. H. Brenner, L. A. Arieli, and Aharon Reuveni, Hollander reveals how gender and sexuality were intertwined to promote a specific Zionist political agenda. A Zionist masculinity grounded in military prowess could not only protect the new state but also ensure its procreative needs and future. Self-awareness, physical power, fierce loyalty to the State and devotion to the land, humility, and nurture of the young were essential qualities that needed to be cultivated in migrants to the State. By turning to the early literature of Zionist Palestine, Hollander shows how Jews strove to construct a better Jewish future"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Perspectives on Israel studies
ISBN:
0253042054
9780253042057
0253042062
9780253042064
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1066088878
LCCN:
2019013211
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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